A woman convicted of stealing more than $1 million from Merrill Lynch and clients of the company received a sentence of five years in prison. The former stock broker, Doria Sabia-Florence, worked in the Statesboro Merrill Lynch office as well as in Boca Raton, Fla.

Two men stopped Monday afternoon for a traffic offense fled Georgia State Patrol troopers, abandoned their vehicle and ran for miles before being apprehended by the Bulloch County Sheriff's Department.